April 21, 2011

Lutz Maibaum to join faculty

We are delighted to welcome Dr. Lutz Maibaum to the Department of Chemistry. Dr. Maibaum’s expertise lies in the theoretical and computational study of biophysical processes.

Dr. Maibaum did his undergraduate work at the University of Düsseldorf, Germany. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of California at Berkeley, where he studied the physics of solvation and supercooled liquids under the guidance of Professor David Chandler. He then worked with Professors Phillip Geissler and Daniel Fletcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to investigate the interaction of cell membranes with the actin cytoskeleton. Dr. Maibaum is currently a postdoctoral research associate with Professor Vijay Pande at Stanford University, where develops new methods to perform and analyze molecular dynamics computer simulations.

Dr. Maibaum will begin his research program here in September. His work will focus on the aggregation of membrane-associated peptides and proteins. For more information, please visit his faculty page, or contact him directly via email at maibaum@chem.washington.edu.